Fuertes, Louis Agassiz (1874–1927)

US artist and naturalist. A tireless field worker, he travelled all over the world collecting and sketching birds. His paintings appeared in such field guides as Coues' Key to North American Birds (1903) and Birds of New York (1910). During the 1920s, he lectured on ornithology at Cornell University and designed habitat groups for New York's American Museum of Natural History.

Born in Ithaca, New York, he showed an affinity for painting birds in childhood, and after graduating from Cornell University in 1897, studied with the nature painter Abbot H Thayer.